OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 23 shown for “Gold pendant with tassels” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:24 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Gold pendant with tassels

Gold pendant with tassels

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 1863–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered Broth Cup and Socketed Saucer, by Manufacture de la Reine (Rue Thiroux, Paris), French, established 1776

Covered Broth Cup and Socketed Saucer

Manufacture de la Reine (Rue Thiroux, Paris), French, established 1776 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold eye-shaped pendant with three tassels

Gold eye-shaped pendant with three tassels

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France, by Pierre Le Bourgeois

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France

Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Cord with tassel

Cord with tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle, Saddle Pad, Stirrups, Rein, Stirrup Straps, Bit and Bridle, Breaststrap, Tassel, and Crupper

Saddle, Saddle Pad, Stirrups, Rein, Stirrup Straps, Bit and Bridle, Breaststrap, Tassel, and Crupper

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World, by Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801

Tea Urn in the Shape of Atlas Supporting the World

Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Knife case

Knife case

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Augustin Legrand

Drawing

Augustin Legrand · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · early 600s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723

Design for a Pendant Trophy

René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 332–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1810–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tassel

Tassel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 1017 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 274523 matched · 40 examined · 23 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 00:24 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.